Montana Antelope Region 7 Help

[SixShooter14]

We hunted on foot out the south side of the ranch, took an hour or so. Only need one good one!

Butcher said he normally had 20 - 25 animals in by then, my brother's was only the third one in. There still aren't nearly as many tags as before the die off I guess.

I had a funny thing happen there while I was bird hunting on the ranch. I heard a huge engine roar and looked over my shoulder, there was a B1 bomber practicing low altitude maneuvers from a base in SD. The roar was this thing going into a full power climb from no more than a couple hundred feet off the deck. It was like a science fiction movie.

Rancher said it's pretty common, and they stuck one in the dirt a few years back. Everybody got out, one crew member with a broken leg.

I got buzzed by a B1 on Wednesday in MT...heard the roar and saw the shadow on the ground. Then what seemed like 50' off the ground he went right over me hauling @$$ then climbed a little and banked hard right. And then he was gone. Was kinda cool.


As far as antelope...I was in MT region 705. hunting BMA444 and 426 I saw a lot of does and fawns. But not too many bucks. I got there on Sunday and they were all split in groups of 3or4. But after wednesday, they were in herds of 10+ with a few lone bucks going from group to group.... on Thursday I started seeing a lot more bucks chasing does...or pushing herds...


I got a buck into 60yds but shot just in front of him. Wind kinda bothered me a little.

I don't know what "normal" numbers are, but there seemed to be a healthy population. Though I think I saw more mule deer than antelope. One real nice muley buck.